The mother of a teenager shown on Four Corners being hog-tied in a men’s prison fears for his safety as she watches him locked in a cycle of crime and self-harm.
In the Lorraine Motel car park,some 55 years after that shot rang out in a Memphis sky,a holidaying Brisbane journalist found himself seeking some news from home. It wasn’t good.
The grieving family of Indigenous father of three Wayne Ugle,who died while on remand for minor charges,alleges that he died begging for medical help which was withheld.
The incident occurred on the same day as the release of a shocking interim report into the actions of staff in the lead up to Cleveland Dodd’s suicide.
A group of 50 Indigenous leaders and organisations have held talks aimed at navigating a path forward following the rejected Voice referendum.
Members of the Biden administration have asked Prime Minister Anthony Albanese about the reasons for the defeat of the Indigenous Voice.
We need respectable bedrooms for our neediest children,not grotesque stir-crazy jail cells,or we risk the next generation being even worse off than the current.
A Solomon Islands official said the nation was keen to have the ancestral remains returned for proper burial.
A review has found that NSW Police has no commitment to Closing the Gap targets for the state’s Indigenous population.
Premier Roger Cook said Corrective Services did not have enough resources. “We’re hamstrung by infrastructure. We’re hamstrung by availability of staff,” he said following the tragic death of the teenager in custody.
An alliance of Aboriginal medical services also dismissed what it described as “attempts to politicise the issue of child sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities” while Liberal MP Bridget Archer crossed the floor.